Motivational Quotes

Courage

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Courage

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.